X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f50bc7a9f742b2e0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Zeus Simeoni Subject: Re: looking for a ascii-art -art Pentagram Date: 1997/10/21 Message-ID: <344D6617.132C@umit.maine.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 282363367 References: <3449F58A.62D9@hurricane.net> <62dh18$7d9$1@news.eunet.ch> <344A851A.3D19@hurricane.net> <62gqqp$c3j$2@news.indy.net> <344D1BEB.DFE@umit.maine.edu> <62j877$4j5$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> Organization: University of Maine Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art miK wrote: > > Zeus Simeoni wrote: > > >> : 'course, if you want one that looks good, do it in ansi, instead! > > >Well, I have enjoyed making most of my artwork (the little I have as of > >yet) color by putting it in html and into my web-page scrapbook. HTML is > >fairly easy to master, and as long as you do 'bottom up' coloration, it > >is easy to colorize pictures, as well. > > Just a little technical question... > > I too have miraculously multiplied my own - wild guess - 394 bytes of > Ascii-art lately by adding color with html. :) > I assume you color the background with , and the characters > by the use of . What do you mean with _'bottom up' > coloration_ in HTML? Well, to field the first question, yes, I set the o I /=== \ ||| ||| Anyway, as you can tell, you kind of loose the image. ||| and what is shown here is mild compared to what actually \ / Happens with a good sized picture. but even with the 3rd ` Line only being 5 characters, you linewrap in your picutre, making it really tough to tell what the rest of the picutre is. The linewrap distorts everything below it, making it tough to decipher what it is you are dealing with on the line you are on right now, let alone later lines. This is why I said I used the bottom up method. If you make the last color changes first, instead of top down, you still distort everything below you due to font color spam, and linewrap, but it does not matter, because everything below you is alredy colorized. So I guess what I meant by bottom up was just to do the coloration backwards. From the last change to the first change. Then all that annoying linewrap and such does not effect you. For all I know, people always do it this way. I have only colorized three images on my page at http://www.geocities.com/athens/parthenon/9573 and just that pumpkin that I displayed on here a while ago and the fish were quite spamfull for coloring them. I can't imagine how much was involved to colorize joan's cock-a-too. From the top down would have been next to impossible. But in the long run it can make a picture look 100 times better. Some pictures can be done with just colors. A box of 8's in black and white, and a nice picture in full color. And even without ansi, we can all do it with simple html in a homepage. :) ______ ____ _ _ ____ /```````/_____ _________ (__ / | __| | | | | / ___\ /______ /______\ __,--^` / /_ | _| | |_| | |___ \ ` /____ ___\ /_____) |____| \_____/ \____/ /_..-----`